It's a grotesque-looking game anyway, so that's fine. But just the AMC logo on the side, kind of bland, especially in the higher-tier level edition. Probably has the worst art. so I would love to see just like somebody say alright hold my beer hold my energy drink let's do some like awesome modern pinball art for this thing and really make it shine remaster the whole thing LCD screen show clips from the shows and like I'm probably in on it at that point because the DMD is not enough to push me over the edge into getting one of these things but a remaster I think that has potential man so looking forward to that probably in the fall and then that would line up with a nice holiday release of a Star Wars license, particularly if the rumor is true. Could you just imagine, rumor or no rumor, just a freaking Darth Vader pinball machine, done in the modern way, just black and red intensity, all too easy. Like, either you're battling Vader or you're battling as Vader, and just, like, you know, killing everybody and swinging your lightsaber around. Or if there was, like, a giant lightsaber that could sway across the field. just charge up your saber I'm gathering my dark kyber crystals and just destroy everything I love it rage and intensity and freaking Darth Vader call outs I think that would be a phenomenal game much better than this rumor that it's going to be based on episode 1 of the prequels god kill me now I don't want to play Tatooine the desert adventure let's find the little boy take him from his mama oh goody it's the pod racing multiball I just can't hype myself up around it. Freaking Jar Jar just kills me. But like Darth Vader, just a Darth machine. Like get in his TIE fighter and just start blasting the hell out of rebels. Like, yes, I want that. Remember, Darth Vader killed the emperor, man. So just come on, freeze everybody. And Carbonite, we're using force powers. We're throwing stuff around the play field. Dude, bring me that thing. Yeah, I would love that. So hopefully that rumor exists somewhere. other than if someone was just yanking my chain that was a hell of a yank man I love it man I can't stop thinking about that alright let's go to Jersey Jack pinball Harry Potter's coming next we knew that now we double know that when is it coming I don't know I got some feelers out for as soon as this thing is available to be played by this guy right here I want to try to get in on it so hopefully there's another media day and hopefully I haven't worn out my welcome down there I don't think I did I'm willing to paint myself blue I'm willing to do a lot more to play some pinball As soon as I can see something and talk about it I can't wait Rumors right now, I heard three playfields Three tiers of game, a standard Limited of collectors Two upper playfields Three lower playfields The whole game is a lower playfield, I have no idea At this point, I don't really want to speculate I just want to see this thing for the first time I want to see a slick reveal trailer that just takes me through every little feature of the game and shows me some long, slow shots of the entire play field so I can trace out the ball paths and figure out all the stuff. And, you know, I hope there's wonder in here where I can see a mechanism, a ball path, a physical ball lock, a play field, upper, lower, sideways, whatever, where I get to wonder, like, okay, how do I interact with that? What do I have to do to get there? Does this unlock this way? like, I want that wonder. I want that magic. And I want to see this game. So I'm fine if they just say, you know, this is our next game. We're going to show it on this date and then nothing comes out. There's no leaks. There's no potato cams until we get the good reveal. Or, you know, throw an event, man. Put a tent in the parking lot. Invite everybody and just, you know, do a, not a rug pull, but like a sheet pull. Just, you know, drop the curtain and be like, this is it. We have five of them here. Come up and look around them and then get in line because we're going to play. Maybe you can put your name down in a reservation, and then you can go and have some snacks. You can go and talk to creators, look over a play field of a non-working model, watch other people playing it, and then they'll call you when it's your time to go beyond the velvet rope and just have some nice quiet time, put your headphones on, and experience the game, not in a four-player game, but just a single player. So you get through your game, and then it's time for the next person. They call the next number, and then you go back to the soiree and put your name back in the hat for when you get drawn again. And then, you know, give away some trans lights or something. One lucky winner gets $2,000 off the game if they want to purchase it right then and there. And then can take one with them. How fun would that be? Like, make it a whole event for the whole pinball community. Whoever wants to fly out can go. I think that'd be fun. I'd like to get to there eventually. I think the way that we do that is by behaving ourselves during these media events. And then, you know, continue to go. And then, like, reach down and help other people be able to get in on it too. But I think, like, a big fan event to build a lot of hype. and then nobody knows what this game looks like, and then all of a sudden, grand reveal. Get everybody talking. Get those day one sales going. I think at this point, it would only be helpful. What else do I have now? Apparently, Steve Ritchie. What a guy, man. This guy's watch was amazing. Hung out with him for a very brief amount of time at Texas Pinball Festival, which is always a fun thing to do. His Elton John made me want an Elton John machine, so the dude does magic pretty well. I guess he's going to be next up after Potter, But we're like over a year away from that, I'm sure, man. The next 18 months are going to belong to Harry Potter and Jersey Jack Pinball and churning out their games. And, you know, whatever sales of Avatar can go in there and whatever sales of Elton John can jump on the line as well. But I think that's like our next year from JJP. Before we get to whatever the heck he's working on next, what else do we got? What else do we got? Open CE editions. So this rumor regarding the collector's edition of the Harry Potter machine, the machine to own, you know, at this point, looking back, like, look at Godfather. Do you really want the limited version of Godfather where you have to buy that top part? It's still not as good as the CE version or you can buy the lines, but they're still not gold. Man, that gold Godfather machine looks phenomenal. It's got the gold powder coat. It's got the better art. You got the Godfather himself right there on the play field. Everything is like gold chrome. You get the gold lines. You get the good topper. Like, it just looks great. It just looks like a great game. It plays okay, and it costed $15,000. I'm waiting for those prices to come down. At $7,500, I am interested. I don't know if they'll ever get down that low, but the CE is the one to have. I don't even want to mess with the limited. So, for me, on Godfather, CE or nothing. What was their next game? Elton John. I love that Elton John topper with the screens and the projections. yes um i love that dodgers sequined outfit on elton john yes i love that better than the feather boa vegas girl version uh so the ce on elton john is the one that i want it's ce or nothing and again um i like this game i like it about 8 500 and i don't think it'll ever come down that low so i'm passing on it um avatar again for me it was ce or nothing i had to have that topper i wanted the extra uv lights when they do come in they're super fun um and you know the powder coat's cool, but it was really all about that topper and just having the good virgin. So it was CE or nothing for me. This one I jumped on, and I've talked about why. This theme in particular, not because I'm a fan of the movie, not because I'm a fan of the franchise, but I'm a fan of the theme park area, which I just spent a ton of time in just walking around. I waited 85 minutes in the queue by myself for Flight of Passage, which is the huge marquee avatar ride in the world of Pandora, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Walt Disney World in Florida. and it was the day I flew in I went over to the park, walked all around just like, yes, surrounded by just really great theme park theming and then I jumped in this line not because I felt like waiting 90 minutes in a line, but because the line moves fairly quickly so it's not like grueling, but it just takes you through all these great environments on the queue and really sets you up for the ride is so much of it's okay, it's not fantastic it's not a huge dark ride It's not like Pirates of the Caribbean or anything. It's a simulator, and it's okay. It's about 35 seconds too long. My nausea kicks in about through that minute four. But it's fun. It's fun for what it is. But the queue is one of the best ones in theme parks. You start off outside. There's waterfalls. The Hallelujah Mountains are floating above your head. A lot of forced perspective going on. And then you get into the caves, and it slowly starts building in the story. You're starting to see Navi artifacts and paintings and handicrafts that they've made. And then you move indoors to where the RDA has started putting their brutalistic equipment and pathways and concrete around the natural world of Pandora. And then all of a sudden you're inside. It looks like you're outside. It looks like it's dark and everything's bioluminescent. And so you're in that for a little bit. And then you go into the lab where they have one of the avatars in the tank. It's life-size. There's little ferromagnetic liquids and jars doing weird alien stuff, weird Pandora stuff. and all that builds up together until you get into the test chamber and then go in and link and then go on the ride and all that stuff. So just that process of just being in that environment and just slowly moving your way through there, I'm not saying I do that every single time. And, yes, you can pay $20 and skip the line, but it's a good line to wait in. And, you know, it's not fun to wait 90 minutes for anything. But like you know I was going to be doing something for 90 minutes anyway probably just walking around the park so why not do the slow walk through this cool walk through environment that themed to the hilt and was super fun So that was fun for me And that why I got myself an avatar That's why I'm not looking at selling it. I played it again today. It's a long playing game, takes you on an adventure. I can't tell you specifically which mode I'm starting, you know, but I'm starting to recognize the modes. It's all about just getting in that experience. And so that brings me to Harry Potter. I want this game because while I am a fan actually of the films, never read the books, but I do like the lore. You know, I dismissed it as kid stuff at first until I got into it. Warner Brothers just pulled me in with their set dressings of the movies. And then going to the theme park environments at the Universal Parks, just it's top tier theme park entertainment. Immersive places to walk around in. That's what I love. so if this game brings some of that into the home environment and the collector's edition has the cool topper i think that's the one that i want that's the one that i want is it going to be worth the money i gotta see the game first i gotta see it first to know for sure now this collector's edition up until now jersey jack has done the traditional thing of saying you know what we're going to do 1,000 of these they'll never be any more than that maybe we'll only make like 650 and we'll just say that there's a thousand um they're not handed out sequentially i think they just reach into a bag of all of the limited edition numbers and just throw a plaque in each box. And it's like whichever one you get is which one you get. But there may not actually be 1,000. There may not actually be 5,000 in existence of the limited edition and so on. But that's how they've done it. The Rovers now, because Jersey Jack Pinball likes money, they don't really want to limit themselves for a banger theme like this. So I think what they're thinking of doing is saying, you know what, we're not going to have a hard number limit on our collector's editions. but we're going to have a limited time. And so they may say, okay, for the launch period, the next three months or whatever it is, maybe they say six months, maybe it's a year, it's an open edition. Whoever orders one within that time period, that's how many they'll be. And then once all the orders close out, that's it. So if 500 are sold, there's only 500 collector's editions, and it's going to retain extreme value. If 2,500 are ordered, then there'll be 2,500 collector's editions, and they're not going to hold as much value because that's a lot of games. But whoever who's going to hold the value is going to be Jersey Jack if they get that many orders. So it's really going to be market sets, the addition size. And so is that a good thing? Is it a bad thing? I'll tell you this. It will be exactly right for the demand in the market because how can it not be? You know, the market will buy however many the market will support and however many the market says this is the number you should make. and then they close the doors and like that's it. It's a novel approach. It definitely would not work on every game because I'm sure they still have Elton John's CEs they would like to build and sell in the future. But for Harry Potter, which like the game to beat, if it's good, if it's dog excrement, then all bets are off. But if this game truly is like the magical game we're all hoping it's going to be, I think that would be the right way to do it because that's letting the market decide. and the market's going to say it's worth this many numbers and not one more because there won't be any more orders. So there you go. So is that good? Is that bad? It's leaving it up to the market. So I would think if you're the free market kind of guy, it would seem to be the right way to go. How do I feel about it? I don't know. I want to see the game, though. I want to see the game. I want to play the game. And thankfully, I don't think we're going to have to wait eight months to do that. So, yeah, by Expo, for sure. By Pentastic, no. by what's coming up, that Allentown show, Pinfest? Maybe? We'll see. I don't know. I can't speculate at this point. I just want to wait, and I want to see the game. I love where Jersey Jack is going now after the disappointing price hike with Toy Story and the lackluster gameplay of Godfather, even though it looked phenomenal. I'm glad to see them back. Elton John, big step. Avatar for me, big step. Let's go. Let's go. This is the time for Harry Potter. This is the moment. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's make the best game ever. Hopefully. Hopefully. What are those boys in Benton doing Down at Spooky Pinball They've kicked up their production of Evil Dead now They've gone through the first 50 60 or so games now And so they're starting to ramp up their production I think they're looking at like 40 to 50 games a month In boxes That would give them, let's see, in 6 months That would be 600 games plus the 50 to 80 They've made now So yeah, I think that's right So by November or so they should be in that last 10% of production. That's when they should be releasing and getting deposits on their next game. And their whole strategy is to keep the factory line busy enough that everybody's got a job, everybody's got money until that holiday break that they give their employees. And so it seems like that's kind of what they're doing. So I like that the production is kicking up. I like that I haven't had knock on wood, any issues with Evil Dead. I like the mods that are coming out soon. Working with a guy right now that's doing a fully sculpted cabin that every time he sends me an update, it's mind-bogglingly awesome. I was expecting four 3D printed sides and a little roof to throw on top, but this thing is like a hand-painted sculpture, man. It's looking phenomenal. So we're doing some test fitting. I printed up the new bench, the swinging front porch swing bench that's more accurate to the movie. I'm going to go find a way to rejigger it onto the game here, send him some feedback for the next iteration, but that is on the horizon, and so is everybody getting their evil dead. I feel like such a jerk because I've had my game for a while, but I put in the work, man, and weaseled my way into the early list somehow, some way. I don't know. Maybe someone messed up and I got on there by accident. Either way, I'm loving it. I want to stay there. Spooky, I got you guys a subscription for your games now, and I'll find somewhere to put them because I love the passion and how it translates into what's going into this game. I haven't heard a bad thing about this game from anybody. So it's not just me being a shill. Game is legitimately good. And yeah, Portal did have longer lines at Expo. Portal also had three games and a longer-ish playing game. There were 10 Evil Deads on the floor and each one of them had somebody at it the entire time. Like a game was never empty for more than two minutes and then someone walked up there. So whatever. Whatever game you think was game of the show at TPF, you're right. Because it's all kind of subjective anyway. but damn this game why it's come on wide body full of everything you've seen it go play it uh more people are getting to play it mgc is coming up this weekend pentastics the weekend after that and then uh the allentown pin fest is going on and by then if you haven't played evil dead you just haven't looked around hard enough because it's coming everywhere man it's coming everywhere uh nearly sold out i just checked and uh you know this this time during like scooby-doo production There was a lot of deposits that were listed. People were trying to dump on Pinside. I went on Pinside just 10 minutes before I started recording, and there was exactly one advertisement for an Evil Dead for sale for full MSRP, and it's from Pinball Star. Joe's the only person, the only distributor that's got any games left at all. You cannot buy direct from Spooky. You have to go in for whatever he has remaining of his 25. And I want to say he's got like 10 to 15 left probably. I haven't heard from him since TPF there, but I know even after he bought his 25, he was already selling those to people at the show. So, you know, game's selling pretty well. It'll be sold out maybe towards the end of the run when we get ready to see their next game. Maybe then some people might try to back out of their deposits. So if you want to wait and risk it, there is a chance you might save $500 or so. But I don't think you'll be saving $2,000 waiting that long because the game's popular and people are going to want to have it. And there's a lot of game in there. I'm going to go pop off and play it here a little bit. So, yeah. So, demand is good. They're doing great. They're super happy. I can hear them celebrating from here almost. So, yeah. Spooky is doing okay. And from what people that have seen their next game or theme, it's going to be even better. So, I'm excited. Barrels of Fun. I've got to mention this. If you own a labyrinth, either new or you bought my old one, go ahead and register it with Barrels of Fun now because you have 30 days to be entered for a chance to win their next released game, which it'll be like any time now. Maybe by the end of the month even. So if you've got your Stinky Prince on a labyrinth or you're operating one on location, go ahead and go online and register that for free now. there's uh i don't know like a thousand and twenty or so or thousand fifty whatever uh labyrinths that they've actually are going to be in existence they're doing the final run of them right now um you know so that's a one in one thousand chance of like getting a free game just for doing nothing else other than already owning the game uh say 80 of the people actually go through with that then one in 800 a little bit better chance uh maybe not as good as one of the the the pinball charity raffles, but still, hey, it's free, man. It's free, so get in on that. So that's exciting. I like that they're doing that. They're positioning themselves within this crowded market of pinball production people as targeting the collectors. What are all the things we can put into this game so that somebody can get it and they don't really have to do anything to it? I'm taking Stern Premiums and I'm yanking the speakers out, I'm yanking the speaker panels off, the coin doors, taking things from Powder Coat, doing the armor, doing the lockdown bar, putting mods in the game. I've got to put a shaker motor in there. You've got to get Invisiglass. You've got to get a shooter rod. All this stuff you have to do to it. They're looking at putting all that in there. And so now it looks like they've got themselves a shaker motor that's going to be in the game. They're doing some teasing. They said today, April 1st, a weird day to do it, but they said that a new beast is being released. Maybe it's like kind of a tie-in or a little jab at the forthcoming beast from Stern Pinball. So it's kind of funny. But they're calling it Thunder from Down Under, which is the name of an all-male dance review show in Las Vegas. And I'm sure they franchise it other places, too. And so that's what immediately crept to mind was the Australia's Thunder from Down Under all-male review Vegas show. So I don't think that's their next theme.